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	Toyota, GM Push Electric Vehicle Test Fleets In Order to Beat the Crowd

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b71b83fe-e1fb-4e2b-ad0a-abfa6dd2e685/CC4E0A69-5D21-4348-86F0-7368B5DE5BBC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/" href="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/" style="font-size: 11px;">earth2tech.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/"><H1 class="title"><A title="Toyota, GM Push Electric Vehicle Test Fleets In Order to Beat the Crowd" rel="bookmark" href="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/">Toyota, GM Push Electric Vehicle Test Fleets In Order to Beat the Crowd</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/"><P>Major automakers <A href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/business/NA-US-GM-Toyota-Hybrids.php">might say</A> that there isn’t a race involved in who delivers their electric vehicles first, but we know that’s about as true as John Edward’s initial claims of marital fidelity. <A href="http://blog.toyota.com/2008/08/the-plug-in-pri.htm">Toyota recently announced</A> that its plug-in Prius will be coming to market in 2009 in the form of commercial test fleets, instead of the previously announced 2010 date. <A href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/business/NA-US-GM-Toyota-Hybrids.php">GM has also said</A> that it will have its anticipated Chevy Volt available in commercial test fleets in 2009, with consumer availability in 2010.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/"><P>Why are Toyota and GM using this strategy? It all boils down to product testing and quality assurances, as well as the appearance of an earlier market time than the rest of the crowd. As Irv Miller, Group Vice President, Corporate Communications for Toyota says:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/01/toyota-gm-push-electric-vehicle-test-fleets-in-order-to-beat-the-crowd/">he strategy of delivering test commercial fleets before a consumer launch is tried and true and has worked for decades. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CC4E0A69-5D21-4348-86F0-7368B5DE5BBC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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